Dumbledore's age

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 78972

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<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:

> > 
> > OK...If I understand you correctly you are saying that all the 
> > current judges were injured in 1792. ...edited...
> > 
> > Anyway, my guess is that you were reading this too carefully and 
> > misunderstood what was actually being stated....
> 


> 
> Well, Harry or Ron were asking who the judges were going to be, and 
> Hermione replied that the heads of the three schools, because they 
> all were injured during the Tourney of 1792, when a cockatrice that 
> they were trying to capture went on a rampage.  Not exact but really 
> close.  So how am I to read this?  

bboy_mn:
Harry and Ron are asking who the judges are going to be. Hermione
responds by saying that in 1792 the three school heads at that time
were injured as they judged the tournement. Since the school heads
were judges back them, Hermione is pointing out that it is likely that
the current school heads will be judges now. 

She is using an example from the past to determine what is likely to
happen in the present.




> Hermione is(in my take) saying all three of the current heads were 
> champions and were injured during a task.  ...edited...  So why not 
> some of the last champions as the new founders / judges?  Did DD 
> attend Hogwarts and who was Head then? Just a thought.
> 
> Severus

bboy_mn:
Here is where I think you may be confused. If I understand you
correctly, you are interpreting Hermione's statement as, the three
current school heads were champions in 1792, and as champions, they
were all injured during the tournement. 

I don't think you will find very many people who read that the same
way. I concede that perhaps I read it wrong, but I'm confident that I
am in the majority opinion. 

The three school heads at that time were judges in 1792. Hermione
knows this because the fact that the judges in 1792 were injured was
sufficiently significant to get it mentioned in the history book. 

So, she knows the school heads at that time were judges back then, and
logically concludes that the three school heads now will be judges in
the current tournement. I'm betting that's how most people read it.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn